RE-(FT)ECM, never leave home without it

Laserlight wrote

> I`ve read, passive sensors usually out range active sensors.

> Of course, if one side is using active. If you bounce a signal off a

> If you're both using passive, then passive may be shorter range than

> No. If the target is X distance away, it's still that distance away

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> The rest of this sounds pretty reasonable. Of course it's 1:30am

What I`m trying to say is that the commander of your fleet will only have a
limited time to react to infomation collated by the sensors on the ships
before giving orders. If you are using active sensors (e.g.-radar), you
have to wait for the energy pulse to reach the target and return, where as, if
you are using passive sensors, you are just using the emissions from the enemy
ships to detect them, so they only have to travel from the enemy to your ship,
not there and back.

I did have a idea for the stealth built into the hulls of millitary ships
after the mail was sent, and it goes along the lines of that civillian hulled
ships have a emmision signiture size of their mass per 25 mass
(i.e.-1-25=1, 26-50=2, etc, twice millitary sizes).

Also, I forgot to include that when using area effect ECM, you need to roll to
defeate the area ECM first, before you cen scan any ship within it`s effect
radius, and then maybe defeate any individual ECM mounted on the individual
ship your scanning.

Does anybody else detect DS2 influences in these rules, but instead of
building stealth into the vehicle, you use ECM systems, which can be defeated
with sensors.

I said:
> >No. If the target is X distance away, it's still that distance away

Bif orated:
> What I`m trying to say is that the commander of your fleet will only

a) if you're using anything close to the usual
time/distance/acceleration scale, the time lapse for signal generation
and return is significant to fire control, but not to the commander's
observation/decision/action cycle.  The generally accepted scale is
15min/1000km, so you can ping & detect anything up to 150mu away in one
second and have plenty of time to decide what to do. b) what matters is how
far he moves between the time the signal reflects
from him and the time you receive it--that is your "circle of
uncertainty". It doesn't matter whether the source of the signal is you or his
own noise.

> I did have a idea for the stealth built into the hulls of millitary